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Maplecroft: Climate Change Capabilities
Businesses, investors and international organisations are acutely aware of the risks posed to value chains
by climate change. Maplecroft’s climate change capabilities provide sophisticated ways to understand and
quantify these risks. Maplecroft believes that carbon proficiency is a leading indicator of performance and
generator of capital flows that will promote sustainable solutions to world climate change.
Maplecroft has developed a suite of climate change tools to help multi-national organisations identify, mitigate and manage climate
related risks; as well as identify opportunities for innovation, solutions, new markets and competitive advantage over peers.
Our systematic approach to climate change is designed to provide business and investors with the means to:
Identify “green winners” in terms of investment opportunity and business partnership
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Recognise risk in company value chains
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Assess vulnerability to the impact of climate change on operations, suppliers, customers and local communities.
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Offer viable strategies to manage climate change related risk effectively
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Innovate ethically minded solutions to contribute to wider efforts in addressing world climate change
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Maplecroft | The Towers, St Stephen’s Road, Bath BA1 5JZ, United Kingdom | t: +44 (0) 1225 420 000 | www.maplecroft.com | info@maplecroft.com
maplecroft
risk
responsibility
reputation
Carbon Proficiency
The ability of an organisation to manage exposure to carbon risk across
its value chain and the innovative capacity to generate sustainable
solutions to climate change.
Tools
Risk Calculator – Aligns risk exposure and risk management
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proficiency to calculate risk for regions, sectors and areas or tiers
of the value chain; acknowleding the materiality of operations,
products, clients or suppliers
E Audit Tools – Identifies and quantifies risk, benchmarks
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performance, aids development of management systems and
strategy and facilitates internal engagement and capacity-building
Carbon Foot-Printing and Environmental Risk Tools – Measures
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energy and carbon use across the value chain as an efficiency
measure relevant to the sector and geography; also gaugues
carbon management proficiency and monitoring processes
Monitoring – Electronic survey tools and questionnaires, data
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processing and analysis that determines carbon risk exposure for
different operations and auto-generates report cards to promote
continuous improvement in risk management proficiency
Policy Bank – 25 impeccably researched policies and guidance
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covering all key areas of carbon risk and sustainability
Climate Change Risk
The identification of carbon risk exposure across the global footprint
of an organisation’s value chain and the quantification of exposure to
global risks that conflate with climate change
Tools
Climate Change Risk Report (annual) – Risk analysis and mapping
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that covers 168 countries. Contains individual country score cards
with risk indices, risk indicators, maps and graphics relating to
emissions, unsustainable energy use, regulation and climate
change vulnerability. Data is available on interactive GIS sub-
national maps and is comparable between countries to provide
decision makers with quantitative information needed to assess
climate change risk
100+ Global Risk Indices and Interactive Maps – Pinpointing
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interrelated political, societal and environmental risks on a national
and sub-national level, which are attributable to the global impact of
carbon e.g. natural disasters, water security, food security, energy
security, conflict, human rights, governance and use of bio-fuels
and other alternative energy solutions.
Stakeholder Engagement – Dialogue, forum, consultation and
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surveys, as well as sustainability and social responsibility reports,
aligned to international standards set by the UN, the Global
Reporting Initiative etc, designed to limit reputational risk
Our Solutions
Maplecroft’s suite of risk and opportunity tools fall into two categories.
Maplecroft services in climate change and other global risks are used by 100s of blue chip
companies such as Alcatel, Deutsche Post, Exxon Mobil, GDF Suez, GE, Intel, PepsiCo, Nike,
RSA Group, Shell, SNS, Standard Chartered, Unilever and Vodafone, and as well as by the
United Nations and World Economic Forum.
“Maplecroft was commissioned to develop the IPC Environmental Measurement
and Monitoring System. The team at Maplecroft provided an excellent
service and has created a tremendous tool for IPC members to communicate
improvements on carbon management to stakeholders.”
Mark Harrison
Head of Markets – International Post Corporation (IPC) whose membership includes
the world’s major mail and express companies.
Maplecroft: Climate Change Capabilities